Dell V313 Problem

My Dell V313 printer will not print. On the printers screen it says will not print until the color cartridge is replaced. We have plenty of black ink however, and I just want to print a regular paper. I thought I could change the settings to only need black ink to no avail. I then installed the printer's driver on my brother's laptop and it gave me the message that I was out of colored ink and if I only wanted to print out in black ink. Of course I chose yes and from the laptop I could print however it came out horribly

What I've Done

I have uninstalled the driver and let windows update install it for me.

I uninstalled the driver and reinstalled it using the software I found on this site.

On the printer's screen I reset everything to default settings.

This is infuriating. If the printer wont print because I don't have any colored ink I would seriously like to know why it's setup that way because it's REALLY INEFFICIENT.

Oh and if I try to check the ink levels on the printer I'm given "?" marks.

That's a thought, however; this printer is not even a year old yet, and the ink cartridges that are in it are the ones that came with it. At first, I had no difficulty checking ink levels and doing maintenance work on it but now...

They don't appear on my computer. I don't think the problem is the sensor in the ink cartridges because from my printer's interface I can check the ink levels. I just can't do it on my computer. This led me to believe it was a connection error with my printer, leading me to do all the stuff I said I did up there but it was to no avail.